Optical Integration Engineer

Company Overview
KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world's leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow's electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

Group/Division
With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design, KLA's Global Products Group (GPG), which is responsible for creating all of KLA's metrology and inspection products, is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist, software engineers, application development engineers, and senior product technology process engineers. The LS-SWIFT Division of KLA's Global Products Group provides patterned wafer inspection systems for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing. Its mission is to deliver market-leading cost of ownership in defect detection for a broad range of applications in the production of semiconductors. Customers from the foundry, logic, memory, automotive, MEMS, advanced packaging and other markets rely upon high-sample wafer inspection information generated by LS-SWIFT products. LS (Laser Scanning) systems enable cost-effective patterned wafer defect detection for the industry's most sophisticated process technologies deployed in leading-edge foundry, logic, DRAM, and NAND fabs. SWIFT (Simultaneous Wafer Inspection at Fast Throughput) systems deliver all-wafer-surface (frontside, backside, and edge) macro inspection that is critical for automotive IC, MEMS, and advanced packaging processes as well as foundry/logic and memory fabs. LS-SWIFT operates from a global footprint that includes the US, Singapore, India and Germany, and serves a worldwide customer base across Asia, Europe and North America.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

Job Description/ Responsibilities

KLA is looking for an optical integration engineer based in Milpitas to be part of the INSIGHT engineering development team. The engineering team's responsibility is to design, prototype, and test new hardware versions in support of the ongoing INSIGHT product development roadmap.

This specific role is hardware integration. Duties include:

• vendor management (acquiring all hardware needed for testing),
• integration (working in a clean room environment),
• participating in creating alignment and assembly procedures,
• testing (collecting data) and creating results presentations,
• trouble shooting at the inspection machine level, using calibrations and custom scripts,
• escalation support,
• traveling to Singapore manufacturing sites and customer sites

In addition to hardware integration and testing, there can be opportunities for stretch goal design and analysis projects in the team.

Qualifications

The successful candidate will have optical training or equivalent work experience in the optical field and is required at a bare minimum to have at least some optical alignment and testing laboratory work. A Bachelors or Masters degree in optics with 2 year experiences, or a masters degree in a related field (such as physics or mechanical engineering) and 2 years work experience with optical hardware projects is required.

Preferred Experience

Past experience with KLA inspection tools integration

Prior experience handing high quality optics

Start to finish data collection thru analysis with electronic devices (i.e., camera images, computer captured electronic data such as a power meter)

Experience processing and presenting data and conclusions

Skills: Must Have

Basic optical understanding

Mechanical integration experience

Ability and desire to work as part of a team

Ability to work in a clean room

Ability to clearly communicate

Experience in creating assembly and alignment procedures

Ability to travel to customer sites around the world and visit the Singapore manufacturing location (estimate 15% international travel)

Skills: Nice to Have

Mid-level optical understanding

Work experience with lasers

Experience in vendor coordination/ ordering

Job experience at KLA ( internal transfers welcome )

Minimum Qualifications

The successful candidate will have optical training or equivalent work experience in the optical field and is required at a bare minimum to have at least some optical alignment and testing laboratory work. A Bachelors or Masters degree in optics with 2 year experiences, or a masters degree in a related field (such as physics or mechanical engineering) and 2 years work experience with optical hardware projects is required.

Base Pay Range: $95,000.00 - $161,500.00 Annually

Primary Location: USA-CA-Milpitas-KLA

KLA's total rewards package for employees may also include participation in performance incentive programs and eligibility for additional benefits including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, life, and other voluntary benefits, 401(K) including company matching, employee stock purchase program (ESPP), student debt assistance, tuition reimbursement program, development and career growth opportunities and programs, financial planning benefits, wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP), paid time off and paid company holidays, and family care and bonding leave.

Interns are eligible for some of the benefits listed. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed reflects the pay for this position in the primary location identified in this posting. Actual pay depends on several factors, including state minimum pay wage rates, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education level or training. We are committed to complying with all applicable federal and state minimum wage requirements where applicable. If applicable, your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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